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Nokia Shows Off Phone with Printable Faceplate

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the designer-keypads dept.

jonknee writes "Nokia is prepping a new phone that one-ups all the other attempts at face plates... you can print your own! Just place one of the template pages it comes with (you can buy more) into your ink jet, and make a nifty design that isn't mass marketed at every mall this side of the Mississippi. The template is perforated so you can get a nice fit around the keys. The phone looks pretty nifty as well: camera, flashlight, FM radio and about everything else." It might be fun to rename someone's keys as a practical joke, not that I've ever done it to anyone's computer keyboard.

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  1. It does so much... by typobox43 · · Score: 5, Funny

    But can you actually make phone calls with it?

  2. Great by jabbadabbadoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    So I shall print out my girlfriend with the great body, but ugly face. A face that will be covered by the display :-)

    1. Re:Great by Trigun · · Score: 4, Funny

      if you can video conference with it, you'll have to explain to you boss why you're laughing every time he calls you.

  3. Off topic, but ... by grokBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... I recall hex editing someone's keyboard mappings (Windows) so that the misplaced keys still generated the correct letters.

    Hours of fun, especially for touch typists =)

    1. Re:Off topic, but ... by rasteri · · Score: 4, Funny

      A similar story -

      I once changed around the number keys at the top of the keyboard so that they went 0123456789 instead of 1234567890... it took the IT support staff weeks to figure out what was going on :)

  4. Issue with the phone by phoxix · · Score: 4, Funny
    While I was looking at the Phone.

    I thought to myself: How on earth am I supposed to dial with those keys?

    Am I the only one thinking about this ?

  5. Good news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I can keep my vi cheatsheet with me wherever I go.

  6. Changing keyboards by freeweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Many, many moons ago the place I worked at had a computer tech with a bizzare sense of humor.

    Every year in December, he'd replace the boss' keyboard's L with a J key. We'd ask him why, and he'd say "because this way you now have a Christmas keyboard".

    "Huh?"

    "No L".

    *cymbal crash*

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    Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
  7. maybe... by mblase · · Score: 3, Funny

    News for Nerds? What the hell?

    What if the submitter had suggested a custom faceplate showing Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, eating a bowl of hot grits?

  8. Re:Keys by tessaiga · · Score: 2, Funny
    With all these funky keys, how does Nokia expect me to dial a freakin' phone while I'm driving my SUV at 90mph in the right lane eating two cheese burgers and a Coke?
    If you've actually mastered talking with your mouth stuffed full of 2 cheeseburgers and a coke, I'm sure that the dialing part will be relatively easy :)
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  9. I just moved by mesach · · Score: 2, Funny

    I got tired of having the mall I goto have the same stuff this side of the Mississippi, I wanted something unique so I moved to the other side of the Mighty Mississip, and now there are LOTS of things I can get and a printable face plate was one along time ago...

    You really should think about moving.

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    moo.